The Register has this afternoon obtained shock photographic evidence of what happens if British Airways mislays your luggage and you decide to kick up a fuss about it:
Our artist's impression of how BA handles lost baggage complaints
The enraged passenger in question has just been dragged from a BA flight and subdued by armed …

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timely update - thanks

Excellent quality image obviously taken at extreme personal risk to the photographer. Do please ensure that the El Reg T5 inflitrator remains safe so that he/she/it can continue to provide these excellent insights into the suspicious activities of the baggage Terminator... sorry, terminal.

Is that....

shocked. Shocked.

Finally this iniquity has been captured on camera. El Reg, you have broken a news story of national importance, and I expect to see this shocking and disturbing image on all the newspapers' front pages this evening and tomorrow. I salute your journalistic integrity.

Just Like In America

Appalling!

Is this a scene from the Red Dwarf movie? The crew of the 'Dwarf finally make it back to Earth, and are immediately arrested as illegal immigrants? No wonder the Cat isn't arguing, faced with a dog that big!

Simplify the system!

When you check in, your luggage is tagged and scanned and passes DIRECTLY to the "Security Checked Departure Area". The passengers are similarly 'security checked' and can be reunited with their luggage in the same place (admittedly, there's room for cock-ups here) where they collect their own bags and take them to the gate themselves, where they are collected at boarding and loaded directly onto the flight. Think of how many surly, lazy, belligerant, sticky-fingered baggage handlers could be dispensed with. And at least you'd have a better idea that you would have more than the clothes you're standing in when you get to the other end.

Of course, having ALREADY SPENT a fortune on a 'cutting edge baggage losing, sorry, handling system'...

And natch, there's 'such as those' for whom the theory of having to carry your own bags is utterly abhorrent.

How come?

Baggage

When I heard of the plight of passenger number 23456, I just had to admire her. Naomi has done what about 200,000 other passengers would have liked to have done, having been robbed of their luggage at Terminal 5 in the last few days.

Pirates

Terminal...

@Gaz

Quite clearly this passenger has not yet been shot so he/she couldn't be a Brazilian electrician. I can only assume that Miss Campbell volunteered to be part of the Heathrow "outreach program". I.e. They are demonstrating what will happen if you "reach out" for your luggage.

I'm sure Miss Campbell won't be too bothered about taking a trip to Milan to be reunited with her luggage!